SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH 2000
JULY 21-25, 2000 UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UK.
ALLC/ACH 2000 invites submissions of between 1000 and 1500
words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined as
the common ground between computing methodologies and
problems in humanities research and teaching.
We welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, including
interdisciplinary work. Appropriate discipline areas include, but are
not limited to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music,
art, film studies, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, creative
writing, and cultural studies.We particularly encourage
submissions from new media and multimedia studies and from
disciplines such as library science, linguistics and other social
sciences, where these overlap significantly with the humanities.
Other areas of interest include the creation and use of digital
resources, and the application to humanities data of techniques
developed in such fields as information science and the physical
sciences and engineering, including neural networks and image
processing.
Successful proposals might, for instance, focus on:
- new computational tools and approaches to research in
humanities disciplines;
- traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including
(but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora,
computational lexicography, statistical models, and text analysis;
- applications to the digital arts, especially projects and
installations that feature technical research of potential interest to
humanities scholars;
- information design in relation to the academic humanities,
including visualization, simulation, and modelling;
- pedagogical applications within the humanities;
- the institutional role of humanities computing within the academy,
including research and teaching in the subject and collegial support
for these activities in other fields.
PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those
describing finished research may be submitted as papers. Ongoing
dissertation research may be submitted as poster proposals. See
below for details.
Those interested in seeing the type of paper the committee is
looking for can consult the abstracts of papers at previous
conferences:
University of Bergen, Norway - http://www.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96.html ,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada -
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/ ,
Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary -
http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98/ ,
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA -
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/ .
Students and young scholars should also read the note on
bursaries later in this document.
Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to
facilitate the reviewing process we ask that proposals for papers in
a language other than English are submitted with an English
translation.
The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 15
NOVEMBER 1999.
The deadline for submissions of poster/demo proposals is 15
JANUARY 2000.
FORMAT OF PROPOSALS
Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software
demonstrations, and sessions. The type of submission should be
specified in the header of the proposal.
PAPERS
Proposals for papers (1000-1500 words) should describe completed
research which has given rise to substantial results. Individual
papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including
questions.
Proposals should describe original work. Those that concentrate on
the development of new computing methodologies should make
clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or
teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical
assessment of the application of those methodologies in the
humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in
the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based
approaches to the problem and should include some critical
assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals
should include conclusions and references to important sources.
Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should
follow these guidelines as far as possible.
POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Poster presentations and software and project demonstrations
(either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) are
designed to give researchers an opportunity to present late-
breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined
problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational
mode.
By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more
interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the
opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to
discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the
same topic. Each presenter is provided with about 2 square metres
of board space to display their work. They may also provide
handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will
remain on display throughout the conference, but a block of time
separate from paper sessions will be assigned when presenters
should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions.
Specific times will also be assigned for software or project
demonstrations.
The format for proposals for posters and software demonstrations
are the same as those for regular papers.
Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indicate
the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is
accepted.
SESSIONS
Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:
(a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word
statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000-
1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing
to participate in the session; or
(b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should
submit an abstract of 1000-1500 words describing the panel topic,
how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an
indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.
The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for
papers.
FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS
All submissions must be sent electronically. Please pay particular
attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not
conform to this format will be returned to the authors for
reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to
the deadline.
All submissions should begin with the following information:
TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, session or software
demonstration.
TITLE: title of paper or session
KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main
contents of the
paper or session
If submitting a session proposal, give the following information for
each paper:
TITLE: title of paper
KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main
contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author
AFFILIATION: of first author
E-MAIL: of first author
If submitting a paper proposal, give the following information:
AUTHOR: name of first author
AFFILIATION: of first author
E-MAIL: of first author
AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as
necessary)
AFFILIATION: of second author
E-MAIL: of second author
CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact
person for session proposals
FAX NUMBER: of first author
PHONE NUMBER: of first author
Proposals should take the form of ASCII or ISO-8859/1 files. Where
necessary, a header should indicate the combinations of ASCII
characters used to represent characters outside the ASCII or ISO
8859/1 range. Notes, if needed, should take the form of endnotes
rather than footnotes.
Submissions should be entered into the online form on the web
page at:
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/
or sent to:
allcach2karts.gla.ac.uk with the subject line "<Author's
surname>
Submission for ALLCACH2k".
Those who submit abstracts containing graphics and tables are
asked to fax a copy of the abstract in addition to the one sent
electronically. Faxes should be sent to: +44 141 330 4537. The cover
page should reproduce the header from the electronic submission,
clearly stating <Author's surname> Submission for ALLCACH2k.
EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY
Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide
projector, a data projector which will display Macintosh,
DOS/Windows, and video (but not simultaneously), an Internet
connected computer which will run Macintosh OS programs or
DOS/Windows programs, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette recorder.
NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate needing NTSC,
please note this information in your proposal.
Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by
the local organizers; requests for special equipment should be
directed to the local organizers no later than January 31, 2000.
DEADLINES
November 15, 1999: Submission of proposals for papers and
sessions;
January 15, 2000: Submission of proposals for posters and software
demonstrations.
February 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance.
PUBLICATION
A book of abstracts will be provided to all conference participants.
In addition, abstracts will be published on the conference web page
at: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/
An announcement in regard to publication of full papers will be
made in due course.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make
recommendations to the Program Committee comprising:
Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba (Chair)
Fortiercc.umanitoba.ca
John Dawson Cambridge University
JLD1cam.ac.uk
Laszlo Hunyadi, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen,
hunyadillab2.arts.klte.hu
Elisabeth Burr, University of Duisburg,
he229buunidui.uni-duisburg.de
Julia Flanders, Brown University,
julia_flandersbrown.edu
Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia,
mgk3kjefferson.village.virginia.edu
Willard McCarty, King's College, London,
willard.mccartykcl.ac.uk
Nancy Ide, Vassar College
idecs.vassar.edu
LOCAL ORGANIZERS
Jean Anderson, Univeristy of Glasgow, j.andersonarts.gla.ac.uk
Fiona Tweedie, University of Glasgow, f.tweediestats.gla.ac.uk
BURSARIES
As part of its commitment to promote the development and
application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing will award up to
five bursaries of up to 500 GB pounds each to students and young
scholars who have papers accepted for presentation at the
conference. Applicants must be members of ALLC. The ALLC will
make the awards after the Program Committee have decided which
proposals are to be accepted. Recipients will be notified as soon as
possible thereafter. A participant in a multi-author paper is eligible
for an award, but it must be clear that s/he is contributing
substantially to the paper.
Applications must be made to the conference organizer. The
deadline for receipt of applications is the same as for submission of
papers, i.e. November 15, 1999. Full details of the bursary scheme,
and an on-line application form will be available from the conference
web page.
LOCATION
The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451, and is a major
visitor attraction in Glasgow, the 1999 City of Architecture. It has
over 14,000 students and more than 120 departments. Being
Glasgow's first University, it is well-placed to offer an insight into
Scotland's historical, educational and cultural heritage. The main
University campus is situated at Gilmorehill, overlooking the mainly
residential West End, located in a landscaped parkland setting
(which it shares with the City's Kelvingrove Museum and Art
Gallery).
Accommodation will be offered in nearby student residences from
�21 to �30, and in hotels at a range of prices. See the
Accommodation Office pages at
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Otherdepts/Accom/index.html for more
information.
It is expected that the conference fee will be on the order of 150 GBP
for members. This will include the printed abstracts, morning and
afternoon refreshment breaks, and lunch.
There will be a varied programme of social events, including tours
to nearby lochs and mountains, a visit to a whisky distillery, tutored
whisky tasting, and a ceilidh with traditional Scottish music and
dancing.
Detailed information on the conference, the university, and the city
will be on the conference web page:
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/
FURTHER INFORMATION...
Accommodation, travel and registration enquiries:
Conference and Vacation Office, University of Glasgow, 81 Great
George Street, Glasgow G12 8RR, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 5385, Fax: 0141 334 5465.
URL:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Otherdepts/Accom/
Email:
confgla.ac.uk
Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the format or content of
papers should be addressed to:
Jean Anderson,
ALLC/ACH 2000,
University of Glasgow,
6 University Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8QH, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4980
Email:
allcach2karts.gla.ac.uk
Scottish links
University of Glasgow Visitors page:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/General/Visiting.html
Scotland Online: http://www.scotland.net/
Scottish Tourist Board: http://www.holiday.scotland.net/
____________________________________________
Jean Anderson, Resource Development Officer, HATII
STELLA, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/
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Please note that the submission deadline is soon approaching.
***** REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS *******
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute
for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and
the National Technical University of Athens, Greece are pleased to
announce:
The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC2000)
The detailed announcement is available on the web at:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html
Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: 31 May - 2 June 2000
The Second International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organised in cooperation
with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA,
ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA,
EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major
national and international organisations, including the European
Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 HTRDP Project (China),
the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the ICSP
Permanent Committee (Korea), The Natural Language Technical
committee of JEIDA (Japan), and the Japanese Project for
International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labelling.
Cooperation and support from other institutions is currently being
sought.
CONFERENCE AIMS
In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character
of human language technologies (HLT) and their relevance to all
the fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been
widely recognised.
Two issues are currently considered to be particularly relevant:
1) the availability of language resources and
2) the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and
products.
Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing
these issues through international cooperation.
The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language
data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically
for building and evaluating natural language and speech algorithms
or systems, for software localisation industries and language
services, for language enabled information and communication
services, for electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language
studies, subject-area specialists and end users.
Examples of language resources are written and spoken corpora,
computational lexica, grammars, terminology databases, and
basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection,
management, customisation and use of these and other resources.
The relevance of evaluation for Language Engineering is increasingly
recognised. This involves assessment of the state of the art for a
given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a
programme, comparing different approaches to a given problem and
choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks,
assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application,
product benchmarking, and assessment of user satisfaction.
Language engineering and R&D in language technologies have
made important advances in the recent past in various aspects of
both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation
paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international
programmes, including the US ARPA HLT programme, the EU LE
programme Francophone Aupelf-Uref programme and others, and in the
localisation industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial
unresolved basic research problems.
The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state of
the art, to discuss problems and opportunities, and to exchange
information regarding ongoing and planned activities, language
resources and their applications. We also intend to discuss
evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, and
explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international
cooperation in the areas mentioned above.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics
which could be addressed by papers submitted to LREC2000:
I. Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages
Resources (LR) (theoretical & best practice):
* Guidelines, standards, specifications, and models for LR
* Organisational issues in the construction, distribution, and
use of LR
* Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation,
annotation, management, access, distribution, and use of LR
* Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access, and
use of LR
* Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR
* Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge
(e.g. terms, lexical information, language modelling) from LR
* Monolingual and multilingual LR
* Multimodal and multimedia LR
* LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
cultural industry
* Industrial production and use of LR
* Integration of various modalities in LR (spoken, visual, gestual,
textual)
* Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (language
technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic
commerce, etc.)
* Industrial LR requirements and the community's response
* Analysis of user needs for LR
* Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing
* Economics of LR
* Customisation and use of LR
* Research issues relevant for LR
II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation:
* Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR
* Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for
benchmarking and evaluation
* Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval,
terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment,
machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing,
semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding,
summarisation, localisation, etc.)
* Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition
and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis,
speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.)
* Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line
and off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.)
* Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems
* Evaluation of multimodal systems
* Qualitative and perceptive evaluation
* Evaluation of products and applications
* Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems
* Situated evaluation of applications
* Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
* From evaluation to standardisation of LR
* Research issues relevant to evaluation
III. General issues:
* National and international activities and projects
* LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
cultural industry
* Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national
and international policies
* Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international
cooperation
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, presentations of
accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels.
Pre-Conference Workshops will be organized on the 29th and 30th of
May and post-Conference Workshops on the 3rd and 4th of June 2000.
Please consult the conference Web site
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html for complete
information about submission guidelines, contact people, submission
dates, various conference committees and members, and other
general information.
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
* 20 NOVEMBER 1999:
Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos,
panels and workshops
* 10 DECEMBER 1999:
Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals
* 2 FEBRUARY 2000:
Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos
* 2 APRIL 2000:
Final version of the articles for the proceedings
* 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000:
Conference
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing,
Athens, Greece
Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France
Harald H=F6ge, Siemens, Munich, Germany
Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (Conference chair)
For general information about the conference, please contact:
LREC Secretariat: Ms. Despina Scutari
Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
15125 Marousi, Athens, GREECE
Tel: +301 6800959 ; Fax: +301 6854270
e-mail: LREC2000ilsp.gr
LREC2000 website:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html
For general information about ELRA, please contact:
Khalid CHOUKRI
55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
e-mail: choukrielda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html